Backend Engineer

Lightning Job By Cutshort ⚡

As part of this feature, you can expect status updates about your application and replies within 72 hours (once the screening questions are answered).

The Role

Looking for a 3+ years experience Backend Engineer for a B2C product-based Startup

About the Company

SciSpace (Formerly Typeset) is the world's largest platform for researchers to create, collaborate and publish their research. Used by millions of researchers across 91 countries from organizations such as MIT, Stanford, CERN, NASA, and the like, including Nobel Laureates. Other solutions provided by SciSpace cater to various scholarly content creation(B2C), publication (B2B publishers), and dissemination (B2B universities) needs. (Featured in Forbes, Nasdaq, and Entrepreneur magazine.

We are looking for an insatiably curious, always-learning SDE 2 Backend Engineer. You could get a chance to work on the most important and challenging problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work in managing products as part of SciSpace's product suite.
• Partner with product owners in designing software that becomes part of researchers’ lives
• Model real-world scenarios into code that can build the SciSpace platform
• Test code that you write and continuously improve practices at SciSpace
• Arrive at technology decisions after extensive debates with other engineers
• Manage large projects from conceptualization, all the way through deployments
• Evolve an ecosystem of tools and libraries that make it possible for SciSpace
• Partner with other engineers in developing an architecture that is resilient to changes in product requirements and usage
• Work on the user interface side and deliver a snappy, enjoyable experience to your users

Our ideal candidates would have:

• Strong grasp of one high-level language like Python (preferred)
• General awareness of SQL and database design concepts
• Solid understanding of testing fundamentals
• Strong communication skills
• should have prior experience in managing and executing technology products.

Bonus

• Prior experience working with high-volume, always-available web-applications
• Experience in ElasticSearch.
• Experience in Distributed systems.
• Experience working with start-ups is a plus point.

Sample Projects

Typeset Dissemination Suite (TDS) is a vital part of Typeset's product suite. TDS provides a platform to publishers and universities, who wish to make their research visible and accessible to the global research community. TDS hosts hundreds of thousands of interconnected and semantically-tagged, articles, and would be increasing to millions of research articles in a short span of time.

Due to the huge volume of data being processed via TDS, prior experience in writing performant code for large datasets would be highly valuable. Experience with Django, Flask, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Mongo, Celery, Nuxt, etc. would be beneficial.

• Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS) and databases like MongoDB or MySQL
• Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
• Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
• Skilled with code optimization techniques
• Strong troubleshooting techniques
• Strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
• Familiarity with confluence management like JIRA/Trello/Youtrack

• Networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
• Tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
• Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
• Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle, docker container usage and LDAP is a plus

Job Description: Core Java Developer

Company: Mobile Programming LLC

Location: Pune (Remote work available)

Salary: Up to 16 LPA

Position: Core Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using Core Java and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and troubleshoot/debug complex issues.
• Optimize application performance and stay updated with industry trends.

Requirements:

• Minimum 6 years of hands-on Core Java development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Spring Boot framework.
• Solid understanding of OOP principles, web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), RESTful web services, and SQL.
• Experience with Git and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Note: Immediate joiners required. Please include your resume and relevant code samples/projects when applying.

Responsibilities :

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {such as NestJS, Express, StrongLoop, etc.}

- Experience in Database, Postgres Preferred.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions 
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Job Summary:

• Willingness to work on highly scalable cloud-native solutions based on microservices.
• Quickly learn the technologies and deliver using the same.
• Take complete ownership of the customer requirements.
• Motivated to deliver world-class quality.
• Inclined to bring new ways of thinking, working and providing solutions.
• Drive the concept of quality into everybody and have a zero-tolerance towards bad quality.

• Understand requirements from product management, customer and able to comprehensively break this down to manageable tasks.

Experience:

● 3-9 years of development experience.

Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

• Java - Advanced concepts concurrency, reflection, lambda, Java Springboot, Spring security,
• Actuator/Prometheus/Grafana/Servo (metrics),
• EFK/ELK stack (log analysis)
• OpenAPI/Swagger (documentation)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria or any other)
• NoSQL (Anyone of Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J or other DBs)
• Automated unit tests/e2e tests (JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured etc)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Sonar, Maven/Gradle etc)

Optional: (But highly recommended)

• NewSQL DB (TiDB, CockroachDB)
• AMQP/RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes